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Greg Foertsch, creative director on the upcoming Star Wars Zero Company, gave his take on the resurgence of crustier PC gaming genres like RTS and turn-based tactics over the last decade in a recent interview with PCG associate editor Ted Litchfield. He also explained why he thinks there was such a long fallow period for…

It’s only Saturday afternoon, so there’s still time for you to be at your most disappointed this week. CRPG magnate Owlcat recently reiterated that its upcoming action RPG, The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, is making use of generative AI in its development—though the studio is trying to assure players it’s not a big deal. As PR…

There’s a new Mechabellum season, which means I can get onto my tiny soapbox and beat my “PLAY MECHABELLUM” drum. Mechabellum is a 1v1 (and occasionally 2v2 or even 1v1v1v1) autobattler where you slap down giant mechs and then make them fight each other. It is probably one of the best strategy games I’ve ever…

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…

Whenever I need a reminder of how long I’ve been impatiently waiting for the next mainline Elder Scrolls game, I think back to how excited I got when I first heard the premise for The Elder Scrolls: Blades. A dungeon crawling, town-building spinoff with roguelike and PvP modes? Count me in, right up until I…

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has suffered a legal defeat over children’s safety on its platforms⁠.d. Last week, a New Mexico jury decided against the company in a lawsuit brought by state prosecutors after an undercover investigation by the state. As reported by the Associated Press, the trial went on for seven weeks, with…

Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. After…

I liked Starship Troopers: Extermination when I reviewed it back in 2024, even though it was technically uneven and added a truly awful single player experience that it did not need. Regardless, there’s something about Extermination’s take on tower defence that felt distinct from anything else I’ve played. The way you had 16 players constructing…

Two and half years since Baldur’s Gate 3 released, and players are still finding new ways to bend & break Larian’s preposterously flexible RPG. Indeed, far from running out of bizarre exploits to discover, the glitches and hacks are if anything becoming weird and more impressive. Take this wild exploit discovered by BG3 YouTuber ProxyGateTactician,…

James Bentley, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Trying to enjoy the sprinkling of sun in the UK’s otherwise cloudy weather, and attempting to wrap my head around Crimson Desert. It’s important to get out of the way early on that there’s still a lot we don’t know about Microsoft’s Project Helix—…